In 1990, Anthony Elliott was one of several hundred of the 17,000 Lincoln S & L bondholders who met weekly at a park in L.A. to support each other. They knew by that time the role that John McCain and the rest of the Keating 5 played in their losing their savings. And they were angry.
Anthony Elliott was 89, a widower, living in a small house that he'd arranged to leave to a children's charity when he died. He was bereft when it appeared that when he lost his savings, he would also lose his house and his modest legacy to the children.
Anthony lowered himself in his bathtub and cut his wrists with a straight razor. He left this suicide note in his typewriter, written on Thanksgiving Day, 1990.
"There is nothing left for me of things that used to be. My government is supposed to serve and protect, but who? Those who can gather the most savings from retired people. . . . It takes billions to fill the pockets of spendocrats. I've had enough of this waring (sic) world."
